Is your name famous?

[Alistair]

The ethnicity thread got me to thinking. Does anyone have a famous or infamous surname? Like Washington or Kennedy in the U.S. Churchill, Nelson or Fawkes in the UK DeGalle, Bonaparte or Vittoni n France?

My surname is just a peasant name from England. I've only known two people with famous names. One was actually named Bob Seager and another was a Kennedy .

 

[TickTockMan]

Not my last name, but what would be my American first name. In my father's country it is a title.



As I was told my father's family was once royalty until the British took over. When it was given back people were pissed my father's family lost the country that they decided to get a king a different way.


I don't know if it is true or not. I have tried looking up the history, but didn't get anywhere.

 

[Charon]

Yes, very.

 

[Alistair]

Those are both awesome

 

[c750dt]

My name is pretty bland but my spouse has the last name Tucker which was a nameplate on a car at some point in the mid 20th century.

 

[Yooper]

Yes. My surname is quite common.

There are quite a few 'famous' people alive currently that I share my name with. A few are distant relatives.

There's a couple of people that are still alive that I share both my first and last name with; please send them the bills. (I occasionally get misdirected junk mail for one of them. Oops! )

 

[Vannie]

Everyone has to use the John.

 

[BiMeGuy]

I was named after Brian Boru, the High King of Ireland.

 

[medic1]

First name, Adam. C,mon............

Surname, meh, Irish/Scots....

 

[Cormac135]

Common as muck.

 

[Pierresro]

Not really but my mothers first cousin who is my second cousin was the head of the Mafia in the U.S.A. for 67 years until his death. Many believe that his life was partially the basis for the God Father Movies. Check it out here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bonanno

 

[rareboy]

No.

But if rarity counts, there are less than 5000 of us world wide with this name.

 

[Sincitywanker]

He wasn't a relative, but someone with my surname was responsible for a notorious police action in days gone by. But the name is, as someone else said, "common as dirt."

 

[NotHardUp1]

My first name, Jason, became popular after the Jason and the Argonauts in 1963. Much estrogen led to mommies naming their babies after the hero. Two decades later, Friday the 13th came along and abused the name, but it is nonetheless ubiquitous today.

As I was born before '63, I wasn't a result of the popular wave that crested around 1970. My name resulted from Mother being coy about naming her children. Supposedly, my father's name was John, so she named me "J's Son" as a joke. Ha ha. I just hope his given name was John rather than it being a description of his business relationship with her.

My last name is uncommon, but usually confused by people with lazy ears to be Anderson or Andrews. It is neither.

 

[aaggii]

My name is composed, the first one is pretty common, the second one started its way to a bit of popularity when I was a kid.

My surname is not at all common; there are variations (like an ´i ´ at the end for example), but the way mine is written, you won´t find many folks with the same last name. My mother´s, before she got married, was even more uncommon.

 

[peeonme]

My last name is uncommon, if we share it we are in all likelihood related.

 

[Alistair]

My last name is uncommon, if we share it we are in all likelihood related.

Mine is uncommon too. The highest state with people sharing it is Pennsylvania. Only 260 people. That's where my dad was born. Looking at the last census the majority were from Western PA we're likely to be related to them also.

 

[peeonme]

Mine is uncommon too. The highest state with people sharing it is Pennsylvania. Only 260 people. That's where my dad was born. Looking at the last census the majority were from Western PA we're likely to be related to them also.

My family is from Pennsylvania also, my Aunt did a family tree and found many Quakers in our past, many females had names such as "happy".

 

[Willie Boy]

Everyone has to use the John.

Especially after eating stuffed cabbage!

 

[gsdx]

I share my last name with a department store, a TV family, a criminal, a golfer, a pop star, and a famous duchess.